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A video released by the FBI, shows Keyes as he describes a plan to kidnap a couple from an Anchorage park.

Keyes lived in Anchorage. It was there where he murdered 18-year-old Samantha Koenig in February 2012. He murdered the Curriers in June 2011.

The names of the other victims have not been released.

“I was gonna take them and use the cut off tool and then do, do my thing there in the parking lot,” Keyes describes to investigators.

“I was out looking for trouble. I had that place up there staked out,” he said.

The confession is from May 2012. Keyes describes how he wanted to kidnap someone from a park near his home before the Currier and Koenig murders. He said he had stashed a kit nearby, with equipment including a shovel and Drano.

“I don't know why I guess I was just itching for trouble -- I knew I was going back East,” he said.

Keyes said he had to call it off when a police officer showed up to tell the couple the park had closed.

“Fortunately for the cop guy, his backup showed up,” Keyes said.

“Israel Keyes didn't kidnap and kill people because he was crazy,” Monique Doll of the Anchorage Police Department said Monday. “He didn't kidnap and kill people because his deity told him to, or because he had a bad childhood. Israel Keyes did this because he got an immense amount of enjoyment out of it.”

Investigators said Keyes, who they said is now responsible for 11 murders, didn’t want the public to know him by name.

“I would describe him as extremely confident,” Doll said. “That no one would ever have connected him with any of these crimes, and that no one would have ever thought that he was capable of doing this.”

That changed after investigators told Keyes his name had been reported in the media.

“We felt it was better to be upfront with him, because that was kind of our ground rules from the beginning,” said Jolene Goeden of the FBI. “We were going to be straight with him if he'd be straight with us.”

After learning his name was out there, Keyes refused to talk. He started revealing information again in September until his Dec. 2 suicide.

With their prime source of information dead, the FBI said they are now focusing on receiving tips. They said they want to keep Keyes’ name in the media to get more information.